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...Jewish kid is Kyle Broflofski, whose presence allows "South Park" to address the Jewish question that has dogged Gibson. In a great episode (410), Kyle's three friends - Stan, Kenny and Cartman - are prepared for their first Holy Communion and scared crapless that they'll go to hell if they don't confess all their sins. Kyle, equally, panicked, wants to confess too. But the very conservative priest, Father Maxi, informs Kyle solemnly that he and his hapless kind are condemned to wade forever in the wretched lake of fire. His colleague, the more liberal Sister Anne, is shocked...
...familiar envy, from the '50s and on back, of the roguish cool that comes from being societally on the outs. So the white Rude Boy lashes out in Eminem's self-described "white trash" anger or embraces, while deprecating, his declasse alpha-maledom. Hence South Park's white Eric Cartman, one of whose trademark lines is, "Kiss my black...
...same vulgar culture that Lieberman reviles. Crappy American movies imprint the American consciousness across every continent; millions of little Elians the world over go to bed and dream of Lara Croft; French kids with an entire national tradition of great cinema are instead obsessed with "South Park" (Eric Cartman's face is more ubiquitous in the French countryside than bitter, entitled-feeling farmers). America doesn't dominate the world because it fears us; we dominate because the rest of the world wants...
...this environment, a show like South Park is, perversely, the most retro rarity on TV: an offensive and intelligent series, satirizing religion and society with proud coarseness (just as All in the Family did in its own way). South Park's bigoted, foulmouthed Eric Cartman may go to hell for it. But unlike GD&B's creators, he'll at least have something to show for his trip...
DIED. MARY KAY BERGMAN, 38, actress and voice behind Mrs. Cartman and others on South Park; from a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Los Angeles...